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The soundtrack was released on November 15, 1977. Prior to the release of Thriller by Michael Jackson, Saturday Night Fever was the best-selling album in music history, and still ranks among the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide, with sales figures of over 40 million copies.
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- Robert Stigwood
- December 16, 1977 ()
- THERE WAS A PG-RATED VERSION OF IT, TOO. Saturday Night Fever was an instant hit when it was released in December 1977, quickly becoming one of the highest-grossing movies of the year.
- IT WAS BASED ON A MAGAZINE ARTICLE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE SEMI-FICTIONAL. "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," a detailed look at the new generation of urban teenagers by British journalist Nik Cohn, was published in New York Magazine in June 1976.
- THE BEE GEES HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Most of the film had already been shot when music producer-turned-movie producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to write songs for it.
- THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM BROKE ALL KINDS OF RECORDS. With 15 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, Saturday Night Fever was the top-selling soundtrack album of all time before being supplanted by The Bodyguard some 15 years later.
Nov 13, 2009 · The film Saturday Night Fever, based on a fictional magazine article about a young Italian-American disco dancer, was released on December 14, 1977 in Los Angeles. It starred John Travolta and featured the Bee Gees' songs as the soundtrack. The film launched a pop-culture juggernaut and a musical juggernaut.
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Dec 16, 1977 · With John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali. Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
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Dec 13, 2017 · The film Saturday Night Fever was released 40 years ago this week, and soon became one of the biggest dance movies of all time. It also shot Travolta to fame and further solidified the Bee...
